Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
Weakness or disability due to old age.
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Examples for "dotage "
1 The eyes were of blank expressionless blue; she was in her dotage .
2 We are not born in the dotage and decay of the world.
3 He shook his head in mock melancholy over his supposed intellectual dotage .
4 Although not exactly in his dotage , his aggressiveness was becoming very childish.
5 He is, as you say, a senile old man in his dotage .
1 The old Professor had such slops as suggested a sickening second childhood .
2 Towards the close of his life Chateaubriand was almost in his second childhood .
3 And, whatever you think, I am not in my second childhood . '
4 Old age is a second childhood in which earliest memories revive.
5 The firm, vigorous intellect had overripened into the mental mellowness of second childhood .
Physical and mental decline by aging.
1 Nasin's more open displays of senility had a way of causing that.
2 She had again dropped into the low uncertain voice of aimless senility .
3 Longevity, and the abolition of senility , were also sought, and partially attained.
4 They rolled over one another, their faces contorted with a miniature senility .
5 She doesn't sound like herself-didthe car accident knock her into senility ?
6 The head, trembling with an affliction of senility , was like a skull.
7 The long fingers drummed ceaselessly and the head teetered; for thus senility approaches.
8 We call it Alzheimer's today, but then it was just senility .
9 Only senility remained; and even this could be repeatedly alleviated by physiological rejuvenation.
10 If only he knew for certain - senility or malicious insult?
11 He could not shake off the senility that was creeping over his spirit.
12 It is middle age, of course, but it is not senility .
13 She had been running away, so as to avoid confinement for encroaching senility .
14 He is alarmed by what he perceives as signs of his encroaching senility .
15 Words came at last, high, cackling and cracked, like the voice of senility .
16 Its old age expresses itself, not in maturity, but in senility .
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